Tuesday 13 January 2009

Usage of English 17 (အဂၤလိပ္စာအသုံးအႏႈန္း ၁၇)

ေပ်ာ္တတ္ရင္
သိၿပီးသားေတြ ထပ္ေလ့လာရတာလဲ
ေပ်ာ္စရာတစ္မ်ိဳးပါဘဲ။
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Good at
=ကၽြမ္းက်င္ေသာ
She's very good at Geography.
သူမဟာ ပထ၀ီဘာသာမွာ အရမ္းေတာ္တယ္။

Fascinated by =အရမ္းစိတ္၀င္စားေစေသာ
They were absolutely fascinated by the game.
သူတုိ႔ ဒီကစားပြဲကုိ အရမ္းစိတ္၀င္စားၾကတယ္။

Different from/ to/ than= ကြဲျပားေသာ
Emiko is very/completely/entirely different from her sister.
အီမီကုိဟာ သူ႔ႏွမနဲ႔ လုံးလုံး ျခားနားတယ္။

Enthusiastic about = အံ့ၾသဘနန္းစိတ္၀င္စားေသာ
You don't seem very enthusiastic about the party - don't you want to go tonight?
မင္း ပါတီပြဲကုိ စိတ္၀င္စားပုံမေပၚဘူး။ ဒီည မသြားခ်င္ဘူးလား။

Frightened of =ေၾကာက္လန္႔ေသာ
I was frightened of a sudden louder voice.
က်ေနာ္ ရုတ္တရက္ အသံက်ယ္ႀကီးကုိ ေၾကာက္တယ္။

Important to = အေရးႀကီးေသာ
I think his career is more important to him than I am.
သူ႔အေနနဲ႔ သူ႔အလုပ္ဟာ ငါ့ထက္ ပုိၿပီး အေရးႀကီးတယ္လုိ႔ ငါထင္တယ္။

Distracted by =စိတ္မၿငိမ္ေသာ
Naomi is rather distracted by worrying coming exam.
နာအုိမီဟာ လာမဲ့ စာေမးပြဲအတြက္ စုိးရိမ္ရင္း စိတ္မၿငိမ္ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။

In terms of =.. အားျဖင့္
In terms of money, I was better off in my last job.
ေငြအားျဖင့္ က်ေနာ့္ ေနာက္ဆုံးအလုပ္ဟာ ေငြပုိ၀င္တယ္။

In respect of /with respect to = ပတ္သက္၍
I am writing an article in respect of Buddhism.
က်ေနာ္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာႏွင့္ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ေဆာင္းပါးေရးေနတယ္။

In/by virtue of = အစြမ္းအားျဖင့္
She succeeded by virtue of her tenacity rather than her talent.
ေတာ္လုိ႔ထက္ ႀကိဳးစားလြန္းတဲ့အစြမ္းနဲ႔ သူမ ေအာင္ျမင္လာတာပါ။

By means of = (အကူအညီ)အစြမ္းအားျဖင့္
The load was lifted by means of crane.
ကုန္စည္စလယ္ကုိ ကရိန္းအကူအညီနဲ႔ မယူတယ္။

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